Queueing to vote...

[denorios]

This may seem a particularly random question, but is it a fairly common occurrence to have a queue for some length of time to vote in the States?

I ask because I see quite a lot of newspaper reports already mentioning queues at polling stations, and mystic829 was mentioning on Facebook the other day about queueing for two hours to vote. And I have never

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[rachel2205]

I get the impression we have more local polling stations...

[scribblinlenore]

I see those pictures of long lines at the polls, but I've never actually stood in a long line to vote, not in Manhattan or Brooklyn. And I've been voting for quite a few years now. :)

[evil_jacquie]

I live in a medium sized town, but we have realitively few polling places. There's almost always a line whenever I go to vote, though it does move along fairly quickly. It's never taken me longer than an hour.

[slavelabour]

The last presidential election our local lines were about four hours long. It was a mess. This time there was an ability to vote early, and there was no line, and it took about 10 minutes total. :)

[tsarina]

Lines are always longer in presidential election years. As with everything here, it is all about geography. In high density areas, a polling place ends up much more crowded. In rural areas, there may only be one polling place for fifty miles.

There's a lot of concern about how the hurricane robbed the east coast of several days of early voting, thus meaning lines today will be long and heavy.